February 1, 2018

"You might be having a fun time playing a little game dancing around this, but you're slurring a woman... It's disgraceful," she says as he fudges and bullshits. Mika gets irritated, in her subtle, I'll-just-move-one-sheet-of-paper-from-here-to-there style, and comes out with: "If you don't get it – and you don't get what we're talking about – I’m sorry. This is awkward. You're here on the set with us, but you're done."

UPDATE: Afterwards, Wolff "went on Twitter, and, as if determined to prove correct anyone who doubted his judgments about the way men speak about women, wrote, 'My bad, the President is right about Mika.' President Trump has called her 'low I.Q. Crazy Mika' and 'dumb as a rock Mika,' and claimed to have seen her 'bleeding badly from a face-lift.' If being criticized for a couple of minutes can persuade Wolff to sign on to all that, then his book deserves more skepticism than it has already earned." (From The New Yorker.)

I'll give credit to Mika for finally acknowledging what is going on. It took far too long, but she at least addresses reality.

Oh and Stormy Daniels denied the affair, so can the left stop slurring her reputation as well? She might be a porn star, but the false allegations of a year long affair and a willingness to take money to hush up are insulting to anyone. If you're a woman that would like such allegations made about you, please step up and be identified.

“Oh and Stormy Daniels denied the affair, so can the left stop slurring her reputation as well? She might be a porn star, but the false allegations of a year long affair and a willingness to take money to hush up are insulting to anyone. If you're a woman that would like such allegations made about you, please step up and be identified.”——————————————————

“Adult film star Stormy Daniels stoked more controversy Tuesday night, suggesting that maybe it wasn't her signature on a statement denying she had an affair with Donald Trump prior to the 2016 election.

During an appearance on "Jimmy Kimmel Live," the host raised doubts about the signature after comparing it to past Daniels autographs, the New York Daily News reported.

She got her panties in a wad because he slammed Nikki Haley with unsubstantiated bs, but sat like a stump while he slammed Trump with unsubstantiated bs.

It's a shame so many journalists (and others) can't extend their principles to everyone. It probably stems from a lack of introspection. If you can't examine yourself you begin with the assumption your instinctive response must be correct. The rest is post-hoc rationalization and we know that can justify anything.

Rob @ 11:32: "...imply...[versus] infer." Yes, very irritating. But this is Modern Media, where there is no longer any interest in grammar, nor any real ability to distinguish between internal mental processes (infer) and external verbal processes (imply). Instead we just have people who open their mouths and spout whatever.

Everything Mika and Joe do is about getting eyeballs on their program and for their demographic (think Inga)it works pretty well. Just like for the rest of MSNBC. Just like for CNN. None of them believe any of this crap because no one who has managed get to a network program is that stupid. It's all a performance for the benefit of the deranged left. They don't have to be right. Ever. Who in their audience is going to call them on it? They're performance artists. Blow them off.

Inga takes time out from slut shaming Stormy Daniels to quote her coyly not saying anything specific.

Unexpectedly.

So, it looks like the 2018 Dem campaign themes will "Stormy!, We had to spy on Trump illegally!, Give Back Your Tax Cuts!, Hitler!..No, wait-Stalin!...No wait-Mussolini!, We Hate The Dreams of American Citizens!"

You know, I can't imagine how it is the democrats have fallen to just about even with republicans on the generic ballot....and that was BEFORE the SOTU AND people receiving their increased pay in starting with their Feb paychecks.

LOL

Literally, the dems are going to run on Repeal and Replace your "Crumb-y" Tax Cuts!

“There have been a few recent “generic congressional ballot” polls—in which respondents are asked some variation on the question of which party they’d prefer to see controlling Congress—showing little distance between Democrats and Republicans. The Monmouth generic poll released Wednesday showed the Dems leading by only two points—which is, if you do the math, down significantly from the average 13-point margin the party was leading by in December before Republicans passed a tax cut whose benefits are now starting to be realized (and whose downsides, by design, won’t be evident for years). Are the Democrats in trouble?

Well … maybe not. For one, they’re still ahead by seven points in FiveThirtyEight’s running aggregate; the Monmouth results may have been an outlier. For another, as Philip Bump explains in a thorough Washington Post … post, midterm elections are essentially referendums on the president, and Donald Trump’s approval is still very low in specific areas of the country where the GOP has seats at risk.

In fact, there are 64 Republican seats rated as in-play by Cook Political Report (toss-ups, leaning Republican or likely Republican) that are in states where Trump’s approval is less than 50 percent. Sixty of those seats are in states where Trump’s approval is less than 45 percent. … Thirty-four contested Republican seats are in states where Trump’s approval rating is less than 40 percent, including Texas.”

Female porn participants are a dime a dozen. Even the famous ones have to do an awful lot of legit self-promotion in order to bridge into the mainstream. Nothing wrong with making a living.

So what porn participant would turn down, deflect or otherwise minimize the sort of notoriety unavailable to that entire industry? She is now as famous as she will ever be (a Kimmel invite?) and there are people who think she might put rumors to bed?

Inga: "In fact, there are 64 Republican seats rated as in-play by Cook Political Report (toss-ups, leaning Republican or likely Republican) that are in states where Trump’s approval is less than 50 percent. Sixty of those seats are in states where Trump’s approval is less than 45 percent. … Thirty-four contested Republican seats are in states where Trump’s approval rating is less than 40 percent, including Texas.”

LOL

Inga has decided that mistaking National Polls for state by state polls for electoral purposes is such a GREAT IDEA that we should extend that thinking to the state level!

Let's look at State level polls when Congressional races are in specific districts and do not always reflect the state-wide numbers!!

Can you imagine how those voters are going to react when Inga's and LLR Chuck's dem pals show up and say "give us back your tax cuts and wage increases and increased jobs, we promise we'll do better.....(you stupid deplorables!)"

exiled: "It also irked the Democrats when the man who escaped North Korea and endured horrific suffering to do so stood up and defiantly raised his crutches."

Well, the dems are the folks who like sending in armed SWAT team members to grab little boys to send them back to Cuban communist s***holes, so is it surprising that the dems are angry when they see some guy survive escaping another of the many, many Lefty Communist Peoples Paradises?

I think not.

Here's a nice picture of what those "tolerant" and "caring" dems did to one little dreamer not that long ago whose mother had died to bring him to freedom:

I'm in high good humor, actually, thinking of the nice surprise many Americans will get when their paychecks are deposited this month and they see they have more take home pay and realize the Democrats have been lying their corrupt asses off about how the tax cuts only benefit "the rich."

I wonder if this will help him sell more books. Probably not. He should have claimed that the text of his book clearly pointed to another woman and that he wished people would read his book with more care.......I truly wish that one or two of his ex girlfriends would write a revealing tell all memoir about their intimate life together, or maybe just an account of an unsuccessful date with him. It doesn't have to be criminal bavior. Just anything embarrassing or cringe worthy. Perhaps if The Koch Bros or one of the Trump sons put up a bounty of a million dollars like the Hustler publisher, they could make such a thing happen. Such information would be enlightening and exemplary for all such writers like Wolff.

exiled, there are some funny stories online of employees who were so surprised about the increased paycheck amounts and checked with their HR departments to see if someone has made a mistake in payroll.

HR/Payroll then informs them that, no, there has been no mistake at all. It's just the tax cut kicked in.

These employees were very very surprised because they had been told quite authoritatively by the dems and all of LLR Chuck's beloved lefty media that instead of a tax cut, they would be getting a tax hike!

And those folks, who already have enough to worry about, became more worried when they believe all of Inga and her pals lies.

But now, here is all this extra money.....

I wonder what those people will think the next time dems try to lie to them?

Trump is a notorious rumormonger, and serial liar. He IS disgusting and offensive. She is tainted simply by working for his disgusting, and highly offensive administration. Haley is "implying" that having sex with Trump is wrong, "disgusting" and "highly offensive." Ambassador Haley, it's not the sex that's wrong, it's the man your allegedly having sex with who repulses. I'm sure Melania doesn't sleep with her husband anymore. He disgusts her; she finds him highly offensive as we all do. Call it a rumor if you want, but that is what I believe based on her get-away-from-me (you clod) body language. So, you can't blame Trump for seeking out lovely prostitutes like Stormy Daniels for relief. I think Trump is limp as well as lame. His doctor dubiously tested his cognitive decline during a recent physical, but it's doubtful he tested his limp member for flagging functionality. His impotence will remain a rumor until he faces impeachment, and it becomes a fact.

Trumpit is the best! Her spot-on imitation of the brain-dead, drooling, incoherent left is one of the Seven Wonders of the Althouse blog.

Consider this gem: "Trump is a notorious rumormonger" juxtaposed to this latter in her post: " Call it a rumor if you want, but that is what I believe." That is simply glorious.It's hard to type while laughing so hard.

Trumpit said: "Trump is a notorious rumormonger, and serial liar. He IS disgusting and offensive...... Ambassador Haley, it's not the sex that's wrong, it's the man your allegedly having sex with who repulses. I'm sure Melania doesn't sleep with her husband anymore. He disgusts her; she finds him highly offensive as we all do. Call it a rumor if you want, but that is what I believe based on her get-away-from-me (you clod) body language. ....."

Women shouldn't do talk shows. Their estrogen starts running, their gums start flapping and their minds shut off.Sure, the guy's a douche, but those media harridans are in no position to look down their noses at anyone.

Drago, when will you stop using logic in your refutations? Take a clue from our not-so-loyal opposition.Where are the false attributions, Drago? Where are the tu quoque arguments, Drago?Where is the condescension and dishonesty, Drago?Where are the shallow, non-cogent bumper-sticker sayings that make no sense to anyone actually informed on the issues, Drago.

The preference cascade has started. There will always be some percentage of toadies and idiots but it is vastly outnumbered. I don't think the leftists/media/politicians understand how transparent they are.

So what porn participant would turn down, deflect or otherwise minimize the sort of notoriety unavailable to that entire industry? She is now as famous as she will ever be (a Kimmel invite?) and there are people who think she might put rumors to bed?

Not on your life!

Plus: who on Earth would rat out the President in such a circumstance? What kind of Fame and Fortune do you think Morning Joe is going to bring her, or Jimmy Kimmel? Is she going to start selling a line of Cosmetics? Pump a book? Where's the book?

Meanwhile, not only is she a patriot for denying these allegations, even if they are true it is patriotic of her to do so, but also her future clients know that despite whatever considerable incentive may be offered, she will not rat them out.

So you may have reason to say that she has incentive to deny the affair even if it occurred, you also must admit that you had rocks in your head to think that she was ever going to come out with it.

Why isn't Mika upset that Wolff is also smearing the man with the accusation of the affair? She's perpetuating rape culture which labels men "playas" for having a bunch of notches in their bedposts and women "sluts" if they have notches in theirs.

Here's a question for you fine folks... Franklin was asked “Well, Doctor, what have we got—a Republic or a Monarchy?” and answered “A Republic, if you can keep it.” ..

So using a clock like the nuclear oblivion clock.. with 12 o'clock being a fascist or some other kind of totalitarian regime and 6 o'clock a democratic republic... what time is it and which way has the clock moved since the Obama administration?

It is better not to discuss anything than to spew nonsense, hate, and intolerance like the majority of commenters on this blog. I don't believe, like you, in fascistly restricting speech except in extreme cases. However, I believe in outlawing hunting and trapping in most cases. I would like to restrict dangerous humans from entering the few remaining natural/wild places left on earth. Humans, and their extreme overpopulation, have made a total mess of things on our one and only planet/home. It's only going to get worse with ignorant people like Trump running the show.

GWash: "So using a clock like the nuclear oblivion clock.. with 12 o'clock being a fascist or some other kind of totalitarian regime and 6 o'clock a democratic republic... what time is it and which way has the clock moved since the Obama administration?"

I am a bit aghast at your attitude toward hunting. I for one would only enjoy it more if fire came out of their assholes and they screamed when I shot them. As to your wanting to restrict me from entering your own wild spaces I would suggest you fuck yourself.

You are for restricting speech in "extreme cases" . What might those be?

Of course, these things just happen. The policies of the current administration have nothing to do with it. Why, I'm sure the economy would be growing by 10.4% in the first quarter if Hill or Bernie were running things!! 'Cause high taxes and lots of regulations really do wonders for the economy!

If leftists grasped the notion of cause and effect they wouldn't be leftists.

Trumpit wrote: It is better not to discuss anything than to spew nonsense, hate, and intolerance like the majority of commenters on this blog. I don't believe, like you, in fascistly [sic] restricting speech except in extreme cases.

Given your invariable pattern, i.e. the spewing of nonsense, hate, and intolerance your best policy is to disconnect your computer, device, whatever and throw it in a deep body of cold water. And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee... Your comments are paradigms of that which to claim to deplore.

And if tolerance is such a big virtue in your estimation, please reflect on the truth that tolerance for that which serves ones ends and intolerance for that which does not is hypocrisy of the most venal and contemptible sort. Consequently, you own Donald Trump a huge debt of overdue tolerance.

And the word you so clumsily groped for is fascistically, an ill-defined word most often used by persons who could not distinguish fascism from their own asshole with both hands and a flashlight.

"So using a clock like the nuclear oblivion clock.. with 12 o'clock being a fascist or some other kind of totalitarian regime and 6 o'clock a democratic republic... what time is it and which way has the clock moved since the Obama administration?"

Yes, if you've read about the history of the Third Reich, you'll remember that Hitler was dead set against enlarging the size and scope of the government. That's really a trademark of fascism, to make government bureaucracies LESS powerful and to reduce regulations. So - Trump is just like Hitler!!!

GWash also can tell you that the average German or Italian citizen was perfectly free to publicly mock Hitler and Mussolini and to criticize them without fear, just Internet commenters and comedians and actors do with Trump. I remember all those massive "Women Against Hitler" marches that were held in Berlin.

GWash wrote: So using a clock like the nuclear oblivion clock.. with 12 o'clock being a fascist or some other kind of totalitarian regime and 6 o'clock a democratic republic... what time is it and which way has the clock moved since the Obama administration?

No one is paying attention GWash, because your question derives from a false premise.

Stop trolling me, Quaestor, or you might get yourself banned from this site for being obnoxious. You are in the same category as Trump the Terrible, and should be ostracized for being highly insulting to your fellow commenters. You are wrong about most things including the acceptability of the word "fascistly," a word that embodies your unseemly, worthless comments on this blog.

“She was having fun on Kimmel and being her normal playful self,” her attorney, Keith Davidson, told the Guardian in an email.

“The signature is indeed hers as she signed the statement today in the presence of me and her manager, Gina Rodriguez.”

Did Kimmel swear Stormy to tell the truth before his interview? Maybe Inga can prosecute Stormy for lying to a late night comedian, and dashing Inga's hopes that the news, especially as portrayed on late night talk shows, isn't fake. If Inga can't smear Stormy as a slut, maybe she can smear Stormy with an obstruction of justice charge.

Wielding her power to abruptly end the conversation with Wolff is not something Mika should have done. It smacks of censorship. Put him in his place, but don't act fascistly. Two wrongs don't make a right.

"One wonders how long after Obama leaves office even a Leftist would allow this is a Trump bump in the economy."

I predict you will be long wondering in that wilderness. While you are there, ask when they will acknowledge the immiseration of the Black family at the hands of the Great Society Welfare programs? Or the utter failure of every "close the gap" measure? Or the fatal weakness of killing every anti-ballistic missile program since the 1980s? The Left never learns and never apologizes.

Wolff is failure. His job was to get Trump. Not only did it not work, it made the left look bad.

Amazing how much of what is used to attack Trump is turned around and ends up doing the opposite of the original intent. “Fake News” was that way. Now “Fire and Fury” raises blisters on the arsonist. Trump has just connected Pelosi’s “crumbs” remark to Hillary’s “deplorables” faux pas.

And so many media types up and down and Right and Left of the conventional political spectrum are so wrong so often in regards to any topic involving Trump that it’s getting ludicrous.

It's only going to get worse with ignorant people like Trump running the show.

How many wrong predictions does it take to embarrass them out of their Trump Derangement Syndrome? There’s no limit, apparently.

Newtonian politics rule a conventional political system but Trump politics ain’t conventional. Trump politics adds a new anti-intuitive quantum factor into the physics of politics that totally confounds the old newtonian-minded folks.

Ah, the illusion. To illustrate the illusion I give you:1. The DOW on November 8, 2016: 18,3332, The DOW at today's close: 26,186

Amazing conjuring, eh? For those deniers who are challenged with arithmetic that is a 43% gain. Given to us if not because of Trump then because of relief it is no longer BHO and will never be HRC. Either way, 43%.

Yes, the Trump supporters got the Frankenstein's monster that they wanted. Are we supposed to go quietly, while he mucks things up constantly? I'm grateful that you have the intestinal fortitude, and time to do intellectual battle with the painfully opinionated right-wingers that troll this blog.

“Yes, the Trump supporters got the Frankenstein's monster that they wanted. Are we supposed to go quietly, while he mucks things up constantly? I'm grateful that you have the intestinal fortitude, and time to do intellectual battle with the painfully opinionated right-wingers that troll this blog.”

Mika, like many many other ladies, has almost zero sense of humor. She must have some wonderful qualities besides her sweater meat for Joe to take such a social hit to have her and brand himself scum, but there you go.

Alas, she hasn't had any chance to display these qualities. No higher level thinking, no wit, no particular sophistication. She's moderately informed (more than I am, but I eschew the press because they are liars).

She has a...stridency which is...challenging. One wonders about Joe's mommy issues.

I could be wrong. She probably laughs at men in pain. But anyone touching upon the dignity of women...she is as much of a blue stocking about that as...other ladies who come to mind.

Wolff's innuendos against Haley stem from the allegation that “the President had been spending a notable amount of private time with Haley on Air Force One,” in which confines he was “grooming” her for a bigger role.

When this is all it takes, who can blame Pence for being cautious about being seen in situations with women other than his wife?

I read an interview with Mika somewhere, can’t remember where, in which she said she was the dumb one in her family, and her father was impatient or disappointed with her. She makes it very clear every day that old Zbigniew was right. She must have Joe’s testicles in a vise though.